Re: Polypaudio action plan



On Thu, 2004-11-25 at 12:10 +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> <quote who="Seth Nickell">
> 
> > What I don't want is to include polypaudio in such a way that people write
> > directly to it (the same way as libgnome etc currently directly use
> > esound). As Colin proposed, requiring GNOME modules to use gstreamer for
> > sound (assuming that nothing needs direct/fast audio at the moment) will
> > allow us latitude to experiment with lower level solutions to software
> > mixing without tangling our apps up in a new sound API.
> 
> Why have every app linking to a complete multimedia subsystem, just to make
> ding sounds? 

Because it lets us avoid coding to a specific, nonportable API.

> Solitare in Windows doesn't use DirectShow to make ding sounds.

Directly, probably not.  But indirectly via a wrapper API?  Sounds
reasonable to me.

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